Arise millions and welcome to this Unmade Gaming production. Join the crew of the
Defiant as they journey through the Third Horizon at the Mercy of the Icons,
trying to understand just what's happening to the mystics in this Coriolist campaign. Void.
The show you're about to listen to was originally a live stream actual play
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We are here for the third episode in our season two point five Void
one shots. We have Tamir, we have an entity that used to be
Dot, and we're ready to see what the hell happened six months after the
end of season two, three months after what is what I said? You
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can do to our goodest boy in space. That being said, Dot take
us all away to the void. Oh, I think I think we need
to start with a little bit of a recamp. I'll need to get you
all up as to where we are in our timeline because we have seen a
couple of different happenings. At the end of season two boiler alert, Toul
was arrested. Sorry if you didn't know that spoiler alert. After he was
taken away, the team has been trying to get on about their lives over
a period of almost a full year. We saw twel nine months after seuls
arrest. We saw Malik six months after tools arrest our Start today takes us
in three months after suls arrest. The Defiant hasn't really been docked that long,
and I imagine they continue to still dock in the private docks provided to
them, as it is safer and it's more secure, and you don't have
to pay for it. That's what. Plus, that's probably the only PRIs
reason there. Let's see. Am I so quiet y'all? Hang on?
Let me let me just oh why I'm so damn? They said I was
quite earlier too, so I don't know why that is. Hang on,
I'm gonna get closer. Actually, I have an idea. Are we getting
into hot dys daddy territory? Now? I'm just gonna move the mic up.
Did that fix everything? Does that sound better? You sound fine to
me? Okay, they said, I'm quiet, Mike, fix it.
You are maxed out on my end, as are the crushing bars because we're
at three. Oh oh my god. Okay, Well, I'm I turned
myself up a little bit? Is that better? I turned myself up on
my end? Better's worst step? Better? Worset schep? Okay so they
can hear me? Okay, our gamera pans in on Coriolis a docked Defiant
but a rather empty vessel. Three months is really not that long of a
time, especially when a crew goes into what might be considered mourning the loss
of a crewmate, a team member. Malik didn't really stay on the ship
when all was said and done, and Samir would know that Malik chose to
go back to his old apartment where he doesn't really leave. Ever, how
often do you check on him, if at all? To often, at
least at the minimum once a week to bring him food, especially food home
cooked food. There's always mail piled outside the door, which means you know
he's not opening the door. There's a small kind of private like box where
I imagine you can leave the food. That's all he would get to it
from the interior of his apartment. But he never answers when you knock,
or when you ring the bell, or when you send an email or message.
But I imagine that doesn't stop you. So this morning we see to
me a rye is he feel sleep from Defiant Tamir. Yes, Tamir has
completely moved in to the Defiant. It is now his home and home it
is we see you get up. The only other person on the ship that
gets up before you do is the newest crew member. She, without giving
too much away, spends most of her time in the chapel, and the
prayer chamber has become more homey in there since their arrival or their assignment to
you all, But today is the day or your food delivery. And as
you go to start your borning, is there anything particular to me or does
before you say, go about a day to day outside of the vessel.
With the accompaniment of the newest crew member and previous experiences with the metaphysical,
so to speak, I believe Tamir has started to pay a lot more attention
to his duties under the call sign of the decand so he probably wakes up
in the morning and he will pray, and it has become more of a
ritual the still unsure, yeah, but more of maybe a just in case
or out of thank you, out of thanks granted, and today, what
do you pray that you are grateful for? I think occasionally you'll see like
Tamir as he's kneeling down with the elements that are required to pray to the
deck hand and occasionally he will split his finger through the hole that is through
his schimak, which he still wears and he never takes off, as a
reminder that he is still incredibly grateful to be alive, unlike the people in
that room that haunt him almost every night. And you pray to the deck
hand, I'm gonna have you draw a card. We're gonna go ahead and
play a card from the corruption bar for one of these corruption bars we get
in. I guess we're gonna have to get to use him though, if
you've got three of them, so as you, you know, And do
you pray in the chapel or do you pray in your chambers? I think
the meter praise more in like the engine room. It's such an immediate connection
to the deckhand. The chapel still just makes some uncomfortable despite any changes.
That's yeah, absolutely opinion, and even what tal has made. Yeah,
and so I think I drew one. There we go. I can't read
what that is though, where you put it. I don't do you even
in my role twenty, I am in your role twenty you sorry, I
am in the wrong rold twenty. That's that's my fault, that's that's my
back. Let me just say that's the one. I want different coal sames
four bars, four bars, Okay, we're we're definitely gonna use one now,
so we're gonna use the first bar to have to mere draw a card
and we will play it. We will see what I did as you the
the captain this morning, how is gone? She's not around m That is
unusual. Normally she is. And if she were to go anywhere, she
would tell tim here or they would go together or Yeah, everything's a little
odd that she didn't say anything before. You can even fathom that. There's
a ring at the ship's like doorbell. The calm livery Uh. Timber will
just tap the side of cheek to pass himself through, as he has done
multiple times, many times. Yeah, there's a really average delivery guy who's
standing there. He holds a data patty, clearly needs his signature, and
there's a a box about three foot by three foot on it. It's this
fragile uh, and she says delivery deliberty from whom. Uh it doesn't give
a name, just for a mirror. Uh, you can just leave it
outside. I can transmit the digital signature. He was about to I need
it, okay, And he's like, I can't leave until you do.
Man, Okay, one moment and Saber's going to go to like the nearest
like hut and the type it in and Bluetooth sent the signature over. He
goes okay, bye, and you see him walk away and there sits his
box kind of on the private docking bay. Is really what it is that
connects this to the to the corealistation itself through Tamir's internal calms. Again,
Uh, Sally, can you PROTASONN diagnostics on receivables? Were we supposed to
be receiving any packages materials? Running diagnostic? My sensors read that inside of
the box includes glass, a variety of chemicals, galls, four news scalpels,
and a couple of masks. Thank you, Sally, and Tom will
go ahead and open up, you know, hit the button of the bay
door, and he's gosh, he's paranoid. He's so paranoid everything that's gone
on. He kind of like he doesn't just step off the door normally,
probably would have just immediately like hello world, Like he's not that to me
anymore. He is very careful and cautious, and as the door kind of
opens, he's actually off to the side and he just kind of peers around
momentarily and looks around. Does he see anybody you? You hear the closing
of the door as the guys like leaving the Bay area to head back to
the main corrio like station proper, talk about it. You're alone. You
kind of look around and there sits this box. I would say, something
flutters to the ground. I don't know what the equivalent of a space sticky
note is, but a spacey note, but one has been left by Yeah,
oh, he will pick up the spacing note in the spacey note.
It's probably something very simple. It's no panic, like out with Julissa,
maybe a couple of days something like that, no big deal, but something
to just let you know that, like she's okay, don't worry Dinners on
you, and yeah, okay, he'll he'll go ahead and just kind of
like fold the paper up and slip it in to his schimak and pick up
the box. Pick it up. You can see that it is right,
It is kind of heavy, and you can hear the glass rattling around inside
of it, not like freely, but like there's definitely like glass packed in
this thing. I mean, with the concept of their being masks and syringes
and gauze. He's going to bring it straight to the med bay. Yeah,
you take it straight in. You put it down and slide it in,
and you see that there are now three of these boxes them here.
Maybe cal has received some deliveries or the new recruit on the vessel, but
there seemed to be like boxes of medical supplies that have been shipped to the
ship for re stocking. But we have not been ordering supplies. Samir's gonna
pull out his like and the equivalent of a space leatherman, just like a
switch open, you know, like some kind Yeah. Yeah, it's a
multi tool of some sort. And just I don't know, I guess they
used duct tape. Yeah, the space space tape. You cut through the
space tape and pry it open, and you see each one is is a
different shipment of fresh medical supplies for the ship. Uh. You usually get
what you need through your patron, but you've not really requested anything. You've
not really had a use for one. The crew has been kind of radio
silence. It's everything went down and so oh yeah, and is that are
there like some sort of like itinerary of the items like there's where they came
from, or like like a receipt, like where did this go from?
Because it's certainly I can't do this in my head because I'm not that smart.
We're that cool, but I won't have There is a name. There's
a name on it. It's not a name that you know, but I
want you to make a So this is a w role. This is just
a black with role to see if you can figure it out. One success.
You look it over and you're like, oh, this person's and you're
like, wait a second. The entire name is an anagram for your brothers.
The mayor just kind of smirks, although a bit sadly. Maybe he's
seen the name before, as it was maybe a call sign that he had
used back when they were in an algal and had to be protective of their
identities, and he's just kind of like that. The grin kind of shifts
more into a frown, and he'll go ahead and start the putting these supplies
away and put them exactly where they belong. And you put all these supplies
away, stalking this room backup after it was pretty barren, both after the
combat attack that happened in here and broke most of everything, and the time
on Kulu where a lot of these supplies were used, or we're on La
Mara, and it's a rather wat to type of process. Maybe it's a
little healing for you, even to restock her space for your brother. Nonetheless,
but as you're doing is to me, uh, your head begins to
ring, not like a phone ring, like it begins to have like a
pinging in your ear, a little bit of a strange and think maybe you're
not entirely sure. But it begins to grind and it amps up rather quickly.
I can't see anything else. Put your glasses on that I can see
you're like, you're looking basic. Go put your glasses. I love it.
I'm not doing it. It was at the bottom I couldn't see.
Okay. I would like you, Yeah, I would like you. Powers.
You've been working on your mistakes, yes, for the last couple of
months, with the help of this new entity on board, do you until
both have been exploring your abilities and what they really mean. But the one
that still remains a bit of a mystery, even to the mentor that's been
assigned to you is your artificer ability. This capability of connecting with ancient artifacts,
with non biological like thanks inanimate objects that just have something about them that
speaks to you. And with a too limited success, you managed to suppress
the pain, or at least ignore a lot of it. And it's almost
like it's almost like just a ringing, Like it's like still a ringing in
your ear, but you you have subdued the pain. But you know that
this is this is your ability rising. You're very fully aware of that fact.
Before you might have questioned it as just like a regular headache, but
you're you become beginning to become in tune with what that means. Tamie is
going to quickly kind of just secure or stuff whatever restimus a place it can,
like as quickly as possible, because it's not often that he receives that
signal. Let alone here yes, aboard cost aboard correolists. It happens to
you sometimes when you're in the presence of your patron, because of course they
have a large is everywhere, right, it's everywhere, So it's just like
almost deafening in that regard. But like this is this is calling oh to
you in some way. Yeah, Tamirable, it doesn't have much eye.
He just has his tools. He's he doesn't want to lose the signal,
so he is going to exit the Defiant and you try to track this and
anyway, do you take anything with your You're just like put your shoes on.
I gotta follow it while you can, Like you're just trying to track
it. Yeah, just trying to track it because it could in his mind
it would be like if somebody maybe is holding this item, right because it's
an item, maybe they have it on their possession and they're moving away somewhere.
So if you can track and figure out where it is. Yeah,
okay, so you immediately beat the vessel. You maybe grab whatever your side
bag is, and you you pull your boots on. Nobody's home, so
you lock up and you run and you break free into Coriolis through a sliding
door that opens for you and the sound of people. I mean, how
many days has it been since you've actually left the vessel? Do you leave
regularly? Uh? Probably not as much as he should really just to either
get food or drop food off first brother or they're only probably doing on what
like once a week. Okay, so you've been doing some researching. I'm
interested what have you been researching? I think so. Before Tamir leaves,
like we'll say like maybe he has to like cross past his room and inside
is just like there are these just like hollow decks everywhere along with actual physical
pieces of paper that are plastered to the wall. And it looks almost obsessive.
And there is a very noticeable difference between different sections. There's a section
about the mystics and the mystic sides and that disappearance. Every piece of news
he can find from every source is just there. There is as much information
that he can find about the emissaries in another corner. There is unfortunately not
a lot of information about Gin in another corner. He's been very busy,
So we kind of see your thought becus that would be your thought pattern.
Maybe we even see it like across the wall the camera pants that you've tossed
these shoes on. Right this what has to me or been up to.
He's been doing a lot of research, and clearly not all of it is
coming from just a computer screen. That there's been some leg work that's been
done to get pritted items and some things of the cast, especially like for
the first horizon, which most of those records have been destroyed. He is
obsessed is still a good word for it. Okay, I will give you
a choice. You can would you like the role for each one of these
to see what you have to learn? Oh? Or or we can wait
to do that until later. Oh Oh, I don't know, I don't
know. What do you want me to do? Then? Roll? Okay?
Then roll right now. So I'm gonna do it right now. Okay.
So here's what's gonna happen. The first role, which was the third
horizon, that is a cultural role. If you don't have culture, you're
just gonna have to roll straight up empathy. Empathy. Yeah, that's what
the yes culture is, Yes, empathy. Okay, Okay, that's okay.
Tell me the other one was u jin chin? Is that also culture?
It is culture? But you know more than the average persons. It's
idn't no, you've come in contact with them. So I'm going to give
you a plus one to the role as well, this empathy role. Okay,
so let me add the plus empathy. Okay? And uh, and
uh what was the last one? Uh? The mysticides. The mysticides are
a little different. It's still a cultural role. Uh. But you're gonna
get here's a question, what are you trying to research about the Mysticides,
especially now that you know more than the average person. We know so much
more than the average person. H are you trying to like track who was
missing? Like? Like, I think that was part of it, But
ultimately the who and the why? Why? Why was the why is the
Order of the Pariah there being used as a scapegoat. There's no way that
human trafficking was just the just that was the cuff. That wasn't a very
that was another cover, right, so very easy cover right in my dark?
Who is pulling these drinks? Well, don't forget. You can always
take a reroll. You can always take a reroll right now, if you
wanted to reroll any of these, I'm gonna have you roll with again.
But I'm going to give you a plus to do this role because you know
more again than the average person, regarding at least the situation with the Mysticides
in connection with the Order. Okay, and what was the plus? You
said? Two? Two? Okay, thank you? And so wits Yeah,
okay, that's a one all right. In regards to the Mysticides,
you've done a lot of research on the Order. The Order is very interesting
in comparison to the Consortium. They are kind of the next most power or
full faction. I guess you could say they're religious. So in terms of
the relationship politically speaking, between the Order and the Pariah, I mean,
the Order and the Consortium, it's a little like it's a little like the
Catholic Church in the monarchy, right. The Order is not quite powerful enough
to like take over, and there's always been a little bit of contention between
the because of this like constant like who's right. But they'd have different beliefs.
One of them is a governmental system, one of them is a faith
based organization, will say, or faith based action. So if the First
Horizon's plan was to upset the internal structure of the people of the Third Horizon
so that they could come in and basically take over, because remember you kind
of put that together that they're trying to disrupt things right by seeding false information.
The easiest way to get the Consortium to do that is to start an
internal war with the Order. The best way to do that is to frame
them for the misticides, And it's very easy to frame them for the misticides
because of their religious standing. They believe that mystics are calling the darkness in
right. They had these very strong beliefs in that the mystics are not necessarily
good. They believe it is a sickness to be cleansed right at. A
lot of the mysticides is seated by actual words from the Order, which made
it even easier for them to do what they did. That much you've managed
to put together. As for the Vin and the First Horizon, there are
so much lost information in regards to the First Horizon, So much was destroyed
during the Portal wars, and the opportunity for this generation or these last few
generations to really understand what it worpen And then you add the factor that nobody
really knows the portals themselves and the technology. Even the building, the monolith
that that is down on Kua is a refurbished building from people that were here
or creatures beings that were here long before us. And the Gin always a
little bit of like a like a like a space tale. Right. The
farther out you go, the more likely you are to meet all kinds of
monsters. Don't wander into the forest alone. The Gin the way that people
write about them, or that they mentioned them, that there's some kind of
deeper it's not just a fable that gin are part of the spirit of the
darkness, brought on by the spirit of the darkness. Sometimes some believe them
to be very powerful and magical. Some believe them to be beatens. But
in terms of hard evidence, you don't find anything but some written journals from
some crazy people that are still locked up in a room next to or where
Lamarra was, you know what I mean. Like nobody really takes those very
seriously, and a lot of it's been redacted a lot. Okay, but
we hear the pattern of your feet, and now you slide that door open,
speaking that buzzing artifact, you're met with the sounds of coriolis. This
is the upper crust. People are out about their shopping, kids play and
laugh, and you try to like Marco Polo, this is the only way
I know you're You're trying to find something that you can't see, you can
only feel. So I think Tamir is going to again just carefully reach up
and touch his face and dampen his audio receptors so that he can not hear
and be distracted by the sounds of coriolis so like going underwater. It's just
like it mutes it all out. Buzzies, that's those sounds, and you
stand it. I imagine I see the image of Tamir just standing there inside
this busy area with people passing by, and you're perfectly still, and we
see you can close your eyes for a second to like tune in on it,
to try to find it. Make another ship. You're gonna make a
what is that special thing that you do? A mystic powers check? Thank
you? Okay, okay, okay, one success okay, one yeah,
one limited success. Okay, that's all you need. You're like you wait,
you wait, and kind of like a just like any any proximity sensor,
you can kind of like feel it now. The floor that you're on
all just kind of set it up. It feels like kind of like the
inside of a cruise ship, you know, where it's like a hollow or
like a hotel where it's a hollow in the middle, and then you've got
just like rings and open rings of just like stories of houses and shopping and
it kind of looks like that for many many many stories up and coming stories
down. So you're on about a fifteen foot wide circular walk path that goes
around this entire area, and it pains, and you open your eyes to
try to see it, right, like who is it? To try to
notice who it is? And you see the figure of somebody from the back,
your eyes go straight to them. Your powers tell you that is the
person that has the artifact that you're looking for. And her cloak kind of
ragged and a little out of place on in this area, cuts around a
corner. I would like to pursue. Are you trying to do it with
any kind of stealth? How loud is the sound in his head? It
will get louder as you if you start to move, you can you can
track it. You know that that's the person that hasn't okay, I think,
oh gosh, this is not his forte. He will try to be
somewhat stealthy black you don't have Oh hell no, he does that. You
can basic. Yeah, it's about to say you can agility, because that's
what this is. You're gonn make an agility role. Okay, God,
okay, would you like to give me a dirkness point to the act.
No, No, it's it's it's very much up to to me or it's
not the stealth guy. That's just not him. It's you're like pushing through
people, right, and yeah, you know it's like what is this like,
it's it's wrong. It is much stronger than that stone that you found.
This is much stronger than the glasses that called to you in the marketplace
down in little Algal Like this is there is something super. She has something
really fucking powerful. And as you like round the core you can see like
maybe you're like looking above the heads of people. You watch as she enters
the elevator at the core or near the center kind of coriolis and takes it
down, but you do lose her. The ringing becomes distant, though it
doesn't disappear Themander is going to wait and watch the monitor for how far down
the elevator goes. Okay, ding ding ding. It goes down, you
know, a couple of basic floors, probably dropping people back off at their
apartments of that are just below you, and then it drops and cuts down
to it's like one of those express elevators, like once it gets past all
of the apartment and housing on this floor. Yeah, it dropped right,
it's like it expressed through the bottom. There's no other stopping, so it
cuts past the core, which like the centralized shopping area and the net of
the docks and goes straight to the seller. Great. Uh, would it
be safe to assume that there might be a like a service elevator down to
the cellar. Yes, And Tamir's been to the cellar. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, so he uh, out of public eye because he does not
want to be in public as much as possible, he will try to take
a more discreet route down into the cellar. Then I will let you make
another I mean, here's the thing. Are you gonna want to sneak when
you get off? No, then you're fine. It's it's the seller,
right. You take a service elevator down, you hop off, you take
another service elevator. You're gonna have to hop a couple of them to get
down there. But you know this way, and so the doors open up.
You're met with different thing when you open up the doors. When the
doors open up to the seller, not the sound of joyous laughter of children,
or of people's shopping or enjoying each other's company. You're met with the
sounds of creaking metal and exhaust pipes. Steam and the smell of a lot
of people packed into a very small space. You don't know the last time
they vented air down here to let in fresh one. But this is of
course the seller, and there's something familiar about it, maybe even comforting.
Who knows where are you headed? Oh he's probably will take a moment to
see if you can't pick up that signal again, first and foremost you pull
to the side. I'm gonnavy rolla mysticability again, still ringing, but you
gotta pinpoint it. Yeah, all right, let's see mystic I'm gonna push
that take that point, yes, I think at least. Okay, okay,
stop, you choose can stop again. You find a quarterer. Like
I said, you know this place pretty well, and it is down here,
probably even stronger than it was up there. There's not as much astract
you right from it. You feel the urge and your feet begin to just
kind of carry. It's like you're listening to somebody singing down a metal hallway
and you're trying to like pick it up. And you pass hungry women with
kids asking for money, and sketchy cantina men with guns at their hips,
hidden guns at their hips, stare you down as you walk past. But
I imagine that you are carried kind of down through and you dodge and weave,
and you come to a stopping point, an area of the cellar that
is not really populated, called the stacks. You've been here before when you
came to pick up all those weapons with Sul and Taw, and you met
Amira down here, who of course sold them to you, or was at
least your exchange. But this one you're coming into front interrops. Last time
y'all came down and tried to follow and did some weird things, and Saul
used one of his assassiny back alleyway things right, But like your abilities have
led you to the front. You can see it. There's kind of an
archway made of it, and it's called of the stacks, because the whole
thing is like, as far as the eye can see, is nothing but
stacks of containers, of big like shipping containers. Some of them will be
left here for all eternity until they're possibly scrapped or salvage for more need.
But it does look like often the distance down here, there's a small crane
of some kind that's like take attached to the ceiling. It's like picking them
up and like moving them. And you know what you used your container for
so and you know that a lot of the containers down here were probably holding
mystics and people during that. So this is the ceded place. Nothing really
good happens to living things in the stacks. But as you stand outside the
gate or the entryway, really you it's like the metal stacks in this place
are causing that sound to just ring out. It's like echoing across all the
metal and here you can feel the energy. To me, that doesn't make
any sense. He'll he'll just walk in and the closest containers that he can
touch physically, you'd like to reach out and just touch. And you get
to the first act and you're like, okay, what can I And so
you lay your hand on it. I'm guessing to use your ability again.
Probably yep, I'm so close. It's getting it's getting more powerful. I'm
close to okay. Yeah, all of these containers are touching. And just
like any machine that reads electromactic, electromagnetic activity or any kind of electricity current,
it's like in your mind, I you can map the vibrations right across
these and so in your mind's eye, it goes from being stacks of these
things in three dimensional form into being like a roadmap across these stacks in your
mind, and you begin kind of like like walking into a maze. You
run your hand down them, keeping contact as you walk, and you walk
and you walk, and you can see where that current or where that energy
ends is beaming. It is, it is radiating. Do you do anything
or do you want to follow? He's he's too into it. It's it's
loud, at this bright, at this vibrant. It is calling again.
It's that that unknown. He needs to know what it is. And so
you allow your feet to carry you. Just go and go, and you
walk and you walk and you walk, and you get deeper, and you
know that as soon as you have to get out of here, it's going
to be an impossibility. But for now, you think you know where you're
going. And as the sound becomes so clear as the light in your mind's
eye, your third eye, as your teacher keeps calling it. You don't
understand why it's called that you don't have third and eye, but doesn't have
one, and he doesn't doesn't get what you mean. But for the first
time you feel what it means to see upside of your soul, a potential
out of body experience, if that makes sense. And you stop because your
feet stop you because the map stops on the edge of bright light. And
when you were do you remove your hand or you want to keep it on?
You'll keep it on, almost afraid that's if you were to remove it,
the connection would be severed, would be severed. So you step forward
because as long as you're touching this, you're not really seeing what you see
out of your eyes. You're kind of following. Makes me think of that
it's like Neo looking in the matrix, right, like you see something other
than what's actually there in your minds eye as long as you're connected to this,
not that we're seeing like code and stuff dropped from this guy. But
you know, it's like, yeah, it's a feeling. It's more like
light. And as you step into the bright light that is completely overtakes you.
There's no anything. You hear a voice. You think it's a female
voice, but there's some kind of modulation on it, and it simply says,
why are you here? Startles startles you. In honesty, he's seen
I don't know he's kind of seen in it through some weird we would step
through a rift with a dead emissary, There's probably very little at that point
that would be super like, unless it was another rift with another dead emissary.
You asked her what? Uh? Did I say? Where? Oh?
Yeah? Who are you? What are what? What are you?
Oh? No, no, I don't remember. It was it was he
who? What? When? Where? Why? That's the best. What
I am is often up for debate. My name is Tubit. Remove your
hand, of course, and you will want to remove his hand. You
pull your hand away in that bright light disappears and you're standing in the center
of this. They go up as far as the eye can see. You
must be deep into the center of the stacks, and this area has been
converted to some degree. There is some fabric and netting that blocks some areas
off. There's a hammock to the far side. But what surprises you the
most is that there's a lot of technology down here, not anything like you've
seen before. This person has built every single piece of this. They've brought
in a piece of a computer and connected it to another piece of computer.
In this whole area is a disaster waiting to happen, Cables connected to other
cables, space taped together. It's a very makeshift space, and you stand
in the center, monitors all around you, and you see a figure.
She's relatively average, about five eight average in size. She wears some kind
of black kind of suit, body suit patterned body suit, but there is
like a lot of fabric over top. I wouldn't call it roads, but
like a hood here, a second hood there, something that drapes. She's
been got something belted, and she wears a large faceplate math that fits inside
of the hood, so you can't really see her face. It is very
tinted. I have told you my name. It is customary for you to
tell me yours. M M. My name is Tamir. Does he still
feel and hear the ringing it's coming from her, like it's on her person,
whatever it is. How did you find me? He squyctapules gaze away
from her and kind of just take in the surrounding, just trying to observe
if there's any any other people, any type of like danger, you know,
if there's something like lurking around you kind of queer around. You're looking
at the stuff. But she can tell that you are like checking for safety.
She says, do not concern yourself. This is a secure area.
You tripped the sensors about thirty boxes back. No one is to be able
to find this place. I am able to find things explain to me.
She kind of closes this distance between the two of you, the gap,
and you see her reach kind of into her hood, and you hear her
like release of like a clip for the front visor, like this whole piece
is covering her face in the bottom, and she removes it. When she
does, you see that the entire lower half of her face is made of
steel, some kind of augmented jaw. It goes down and connects into her
neck. Her hands have gloves on them, so you can't really tell.
But most of her body is covered, but the top half of her face
minus maybe some of the augmenting simmu similar to yours in and around her eyes
is and the hair on her head tells you that she is human, or
at least was is. This is your home. I have not had a
home in a very long time, but it is where I dwell. And
all of this and heat gestures to the the technology of your the vision necessary
for the work that I do and what is that? If I might ask,
you have asked a lot of questions, but you have yet to answer
my how did you find me? H? Can? Can? I can?
Tamir? Tamir? He's so paranoid about revealing mystic stuff. He's so
it makes sense. Granted you're staring at a partially robotic human which you would
never say before, which is you know, like accepted. But yes,
right, and yeah, I'm I'm not going to ask the role. I
think he's just gonna inherently the tech the modifications. There's almost like you know,
how like if if like yeah, like you're just like walking about and
like somebody has like a tattoo and you're like, oh yo, I love
that tattoo. You've got one that's like similar because it means like this really
obscure thing and you're just instant like brotherhood because it's just like, you know
the type of people that like that thing. I think that I think that's
why he just is gonna intrinsically let his guard down a bit here. There's
that's a lot of modification that is beyond modification. I did answer to your
question. You asked, how I found you. I located items as they
call to me, and there is something on your person. I can hear
it, I can feel it. Sir, you are an artificer, Yes
I am. She cannot smile because her lower jaw is steel, but her
eyes I have some kind of recognition in them, even behind the cyborg like
placement and blue glowing uh like veining around it. You are a mystic,
yes I am. I have been alive a long time. I've never met
a mystic that was an artificer. I can assure you I have no objects
on my person. That's cannot be true. I can feel it. They
can hear it. This is loud and powerful. She removes, like the
hood right to show like her hair, a little bit of it she has
left, and she kind of disrobes and shows you that she's wearing a very
simple, kind of overall protective body suit. And she kind of looks up
and down and she says, as I said, nothing. It may not
make much of a difference, but I cannot lie to you, and I
have no intention of lying to you. Does not sense? Have you been
practicing three months? I remember my first three months. That was a long
time ago. Do you have a teacher. Yeah I do. But after
three months you still do not understand. It doesn't make sense. There's not
a good explanation for any of this. I have found that is true for
most things. To mea fit. She kind of gestures a little robotically to
the right. She's pulls a seat up as well. You can see that
there's a chair that she clearly does work on herself. That's must be where
she like does a lot of her things, because it's a little bit more,
you know, like leans back, there's some straps on the side.
It's a little bit more hefty. And she says, so what do you
know? To me, her, I know many things about the mystics,
not much. I know that people like me have been taken and slaughtered for
their gifts. That has been going on much longer than you know. Some
things never change. But you say you are a new mystic. So what
did you know before? You cannot have been completely unknowing. I I am
an engineer. I know the numbers and figures and calculations theoretical and practical.
I know science and two points to your face, your choice, yes,
may I ask why we all have our reasons? It felt the right to
be able to No, I didn't feel the right. Our bodies are so
limited, limited, she smiles Welsh camp. Yes, we could do so
much more, but we are fragile and confined. May I ask the same
question by choice always? So? They were not easy choices. A long
time ago I saved to the Order. It was a student, a diplomat.
I believed that faith, faith, and the belief in something is what
would save humanity. I was proven wrong. My abilities they were late to
bloom. I started having premonitions, seeing what might be. When I reported
them, the Order promptly put me into treatment. I ran and I found
a crew. They were trouble, but I needed them. We were on
a mission to retrieve information, important information. Unfortunately, the Consortium got their
hands on us. First. Weren't two head of She kind of points where
it probably once was. Now is the like functioning piece for her jaw?
That was my first. They netted me to the computer, hardwired my brain
in, then hardwired my cruise brains into mine into an augmented reality, a
primitive world where humans wrote, four legged creatures and wheels were made of wood.
They were looking for something when we came from out of our dream.
I was different. I had to know what they wanted, and so I
began the process of augmenting myself so that I could elevate my brain see find
what they were looking for. I did, and I have spent my life
running because of it. One step leads to another and another for years.
When I left the Order, I assumed that my powers were obsolete with such
technology as yours. The fact of the matter is they lied my brain.
My essence became more elevated than it ever was to me. Science and faith
they do not have to be at odds. What can be accomplished when they
are in balance? Yes, no one ever finds me. And when they
do, they well they run. Why do you really here, Mirror?
I heard the call leads to a question that needs an answer. What is
an artifact? To me? Then it's purists for what makes an artifact different
than the shoes you are wearing? I think to Mirror will just give like
the actual textbook definition of an artifact? What is that? I want to
know what that is? What does the book say? Yeah? What does
the is a word used to describe ancient technology from the yonder that I don't
know, but it's like just the most basic basic yeah and nods yes.
Gotaloged definition says it is an object made by humans, typically a cultural or
historical interest. So what makes the stone in your pocket different than the shoes
on your feet? Is it because that stone in your pocket has spiritual significance
historical significance. I'm not entirely clear. The answer is not really present.
My assumption, my thoughts on it is that the humans long ago were able
to understand a level of quantum mechanics in the way that is lost upon us,
and we're able to alter something, alter the base of our understanding of
how the universe works. What makes you're so knowledgeable? You speak of this
kind of technology, ancient technology? Portals? You know them intimately. I
recently graduated from the university here as a portal master. I saw the portal
wars. I saw the rise and the inevitable, the inevitable fault humes.
We have been here a long time to me hiding running because you see,
they still want what He's in my head? Who everyone? Most people use
the portals with no knowledge of how they function, who built them, why
they are here? Would it change you if you knew the answers to those
questions to know who the original architects were, different notion, the purpose,
the actuality of why they were placed here, how they function, and yes,
food made them. You see to me, after all this time,
I have seen and done a lot that I have never met an artificer,
and I have never met someone who likes the study of portals. The way
that you do two anomalies in a single day, statistically speaking, is impossible.
The Order called that miracles. Science caused that inevitability, and maybe it
is inevitable. Do you want more to me augmentations? I have twelve successful.
I have seen and been through things that should have got to be killed,
things that would drive ordinary people mad, and not just me but the
entire crew. But you are not mad. No, at least I don't
believe you. So there's so many questions, so many more answers. No,
we're closer to finding anything about more about the Order, about the Consortium,
the civil war that's brewing, or about Lamara, who is probably running
away in some sort of trap with the gin. About the first Horizon knocking
on the portal doors, What did you say about the first Horizon? What
did you say they're coming. They've already successfully sent at least one ship.
If you say that you were there for the original port of the Wars,
it should be impossible. But I saw it with my on eyes. Well,
meditate with me, meditate. But I wrote an entire My thesis is
written on it. I could just show you the she gestures. You realize
now when she gestures and she sits in the middle of this kind of centralized
area, in between these stacks that the cables run around this place forming a
circle. And she sits in the middle, and she says, please,
much is troubling you? Yeah, there's when I order. They told us
to pray to the icons. Do you pray? Only recently. I was
not a believer for a very long time, but you are now. There's
something out there that I cannot explain. There are occurrences that have happened that
they have seen with my own eyes. Perhaps they are the Icons. Perhaps
I'd like to show you so. And she reaches over to the nearest kind
of cable and she slides one out of kind of the binding, and she
brings it up and she plugs it directly into her ear, deep into her
ear. You hear it almost like an audio jack, like clicking and take
thir a second and her head twitches a little and she she says, I
too used to see prayer meditation science. That's different things separate from one another
because they each require something different. But when they are in balance together,
it changes perspective because they are not without each other. Ever, two bit
gestures to your right on the floor. Is another jack, he says,
pull the end. You can plug it directly into your augmentation. And who
kind of needs an upgrade? She got says under her breath, Hey,
this is all I could afford, did the cellar? So who'll plug it
in kind of that little pinhole shoulder? And you too feel it like a
zapp, A little bit of a zapp, says. Our understanding of body
augmentation and the functionality of the brain is wanting close your eyes to bejoind you.
She continues to talk. The technology that you feel it is connected to
your brain. Meditation is used to open up our senses sight, smell,
touch, taste. But what about the sensation in the back of your neck,
an unaccounted sense. When we add it to our understanding, count it
as equal instead of outsider. It changes the capability and the brain's understanding of
the technologies existing on our body. It does not reject it, it accepts
it. And she sits there in silence with you two and for a while
to me or you feel the electricity at the back of your neck taser level,
like somebody's like constantly shocking you on a door. Right, there's a
little bit here and there, And she says, try again your abilities now
that you are centered rolling mystic power once more, I'm going to give you
a plus two for two reasons. Well, but I will tell you when
you're done. We'll see how you do. Alright, let's see nice A
two limited success. Very nice. This time. You don't have to close
your eyes to see the light. You see it, and you realize because
maybe it's it's almost like the technology helps you have like sunglasses, so it's
not so bright you can actually like tune in. The light comes from her.
She is the artifact, too bid How it is possible if it is
in fact true by definition that an artifact is simply something created by humans with
cultural or significance and heritage. I qualify under that definition to me specifically because
of the information that I contain but I am still human. My body is
failing me, and I've been here a long some would say longer than I
should. My ninety sixth birthday is next week. He looks about thirty five
sands her jaw m. I held this information because I did not believe there
was anyone to have it, not the Consortium, not the order. Information
of this kind is I would like you to take it. Two anomalies in
one day. You said that you are hiding at that no one should have
found you. I am mostly untraceable by standard machines used by humans. Like
I said, you're the first artificer I have ever met. You found me.
Do not go into the cellar to get your upgrades anymore. To me,
I will gladly do them for free. What do you need to do
with this information? Keep it safe? She and plugs from your joint meditation,
and she drops it and stands and goes over to one of the computers,
and she hits a single button. Then all the screens light up.
They've been on some kind of flake old screen. He pulls off her glove
and with no hesitation, reach it then and plucks one of her eyes from
its socket. She sets it very gingerly on the table next to her,
and she uses the small of her smallest finger to reach deep into an empty
eye socket. You can see that there's some blue light emanating from it,
which tells you there's some tech in there that you just can't see. And
she which is the way you might remove a card from a camera, press
motion and you hear it like click, and she pull from her eye socket
a very very small data card. She puts her eye back in. It
whirls around until it fits back in place, and she slips it into the
computer into a very small slot. She hits a button. A bunch of
code begins to come up, and she says, can you read that?
Can you read that? I don't know how good it's tmar with code.
It's not really his four day and that's I mean, I'm sure he knows
like basic programming, you know, everybody knows a little bit of HTML.
Yep, but it's probably not something that he was super trained in his it's
not what he went to school for. She sees you kind of looking at
it. She says, it's okay to say I do not know. Part
of science is accepting the unknown. Of course, this is just it's not
I am not familiar with programming. My brother though he's very good with it.
Your family, yes, good, they can keep you safe. Then
she are used to plugged in. Yeah, I would like to help with
that if I could, as much as I'm sure your brother would be able
to crack the code. Some information he's only able to be read in code.
It is not a language that many can speak. I am a very
fast study. Yeah, if you would permit me, I will teach you.
Yes. Please. She kind of uses one hand and types on a
keyboard without looking and hits a button, and when she does, you feel
a shock in the back of your head the mirror pretty painful in fact,
and she says, I am sorry, I forget. I should have warned
you it was going to hurt some. But now and you look about the
screen and you can totally read it. The brain is a series of signals
electricity. We can imprint onto the brain certain basic pieces of information. Oh,
I have done. It's told your brain it knows something it does not.
Can you do this with anything? Not all things, even I still
require a voice modulator. And she kind of pulls up and you see inserted
into the middle of her chest is a voice modulator, a basic voice modulator,
which is usually worn around to the neck and then translates out what you
say. She's had it inserted into her chest. Not all things, but
some are small enough, such as understanding by ainary code, Go ahead,
read it. He kind of takes a hesitant pause, and it just kind
of like looks her over one more time, and we'll then look up at
the screens and begin reading. You begin sifting through this information, and probably
for the first couple of minutes it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
But as you scroll in more binary comes across the screen, something begins to
happen. You realize what it's talking about. Some of this is not new
information to you, it's just a little different. This seems to be information
on how to build portals, on the original science and technology that was created
by the ancient ones before humans arrived here, before the first horizon. This
is lost information from a culture that no longer exists here. Tu Bid is
an artifact because she's the carrier of such historical information to my knowledge, to
me, you and I are the only people who have ever seen this.
I would like to pass it on to you. It has been my burden
for a long time. If there is anything that my recent experiences have taught
me, wait, my captain, my brother, my friends, is that
no burden should be carried alone. I wish I had had family to say
such things to me long ago. But here I am. They will hunt
you to me. I am already hunted. We have seen too much.
I know this feeling. I would like to go home, as she put
it, my home two resign myself to the end of my life. This
morning I got up and prayed to the icons. Okay, unlike many,
I do not pray to one. For many years I served only the Lady
of tears. But as all great things, balance is necessary. And though
she may be the giver and the bringer and a herald for the dead,
she is not the only icon. This morning I prayed, but the dead
hand, like a captain, would deliver you an answer to my problems.
And here you are, tamir M Do you believe in the icons? Now?
I still find it difficult. All things in life are difficult. What
do you believe? Mm hmm. I believe in my brother and my captain.
I believe in love. I believe that people inherently will do good things,
and I also believe that they will do horrific ones too. Do you
believe in yourself? Not as much as I would like. I encourage you
as you continue your practices with your teacher, take them in for what they
are, and find your own practice to the kind of gestures to the room
that you stand in her temple being missing, There is no text book way.
Being mystic is from my experience about helping others find their path. When
you touched that stack, there was no doubt in what you sought. You're
a little, very unique gift to me and as a very lonely cyborg.
If you don't believe in you, nobody else will. But what good is
a gift if I can't even use it to help my brother? I owe
him everything? Why is this? I took something from him? Can you
not return it? I don't know how, and he won't let me help
him without being too person May I ask what you took? I believe he
loved somebody, whether he knew to what degree or not, he gave somebody
a level of vulnerability I have never seen him through before. And I imprisoned
her part gin part a human. She was changing, and they used an
art of fact. I thought that something would come out, something horrific,
something similar to things we've seen before. But my assumptions were wrong, and
that instead took her. So when we are studying running an experiment and we
get it wrong, what do you do? We change our hypothesis. All
right, up until this point point, you believe she was changing into a
gin. Jin are unique creatures. I myself have never had an opportunity to
encounter one, though I would have many questions. We have had the pleasure
of meeting too. Then you are lucky. The average person only ever gets
to meet one, and they don't usually know it. There is a theory
that Jin are brock from the other side long ago in old World, before
we came here and the Zealership arrived awakening the mystics. Humans believed all kinds
of things. They have many religions, faith. Much of that is now
lost to time, lost to the portal wars, but some things remain.
Many tried to uphold their same teachings, but again with time, they become
lost jumbled. One of their beliefs is that everybody contains the soul, our
essence, and that when we are done, that essence being energy. It's
not just dissipate. We do not disappear. We pass on and to another
ether, another place in time. Some belief for resurrection, others for glorious
afterlife. But if there is always a little truth in our fable, what
if your brother's love is not changing into a gym? She is possessed by
one genner said to be dark energy from the other side, hold brought into
this place out of sort. But you see they are corrupted soul, not
of the person bearing it, but of one without a vessel. You said
there was a container. Yes, you let the jen out of it.
It pulled her in with it. It pulled her in. I assumed that
something would be released, but we needed it, and something wasn't. Sounds
to me like whatever you let out left an empty container. We did.
It was essence, a soul. Someone very important needed it. She understood.
It is said that there was a man long ago after the Portal Wars,
who had collected everything that he could on the old world's ways, on
their religions. He kept a tone of collected pieces, small items, writings,
pieces of lost books, strapped together into a single binding that at all
points. He kept a bound to his chest until ready for use. He
is long dead now. But if it is true where his body lays,
so lays this book. If you would like to help your brother, I
imagine a book of that kind would answer many questions. But as I said
when you first got here, everything comes out of price, and to rip
a bad spirit from a body not an easy task. If I do not
help him, this will destroy him. And I will do anything to save
my brother. Then maybe you should do a little research. Would you like
me to help you with that? I would, But is there something I
can do for you? You say you have been here for so long,
you're ready to return home. I I would be lying if I said,
when I give you this, and she gaspers to something behind her ear,
like a giant piece of behind her ear. It also comes with something that
is very dear to me, I would like you to take care of it.
I can do this to the best of my ability. You will answer
many questions for you, and I guess you will see. Please have a
seat, and she gestures to the operation chair. He will slowly sit down.
She does. Strap your feet down in your arms. You said,
this is just to assure you do not move, I understand before before you
do this, do you still feel human? What is it to feel human?
The love, the lust to be curious, to know things, to
find joy and happiness, try to laugh. There are many of those things
that I am no longer capable of, even if I wanted to. But
I still feel to me, regardless of what my face may say or the
tone of my voice. The odor a sootum. They tried to tell me
because of my uniqueness, because I was a mystic, I could not feel
and was different. Because I chose to augment my body, I was different
and could not feel. Little did they know that I feel deeply, more
deep than most will ever understand. I have jacked myself into Coriolis and had
an out of body experience and stared at the stars on the dark side of
Kua. Being human is about experiencing life and living it to its fullest.
I did not have anyone I loved to do it with, But to me,
you do I do so? Then why do you fear? Are you
afraid you will lose a part of yourself? Yes, I did not want
to be incapable of loving. Do you think that technology keeps you from being
able to love. Yes, and maybe you should. We think your perspective.
I have loved deeply. You will soon understand that more you see.
To me, this is just our vessel, a pacing containing this does not
change my soul. Thank you, Tupid. He goes over and removes the
small chip that she kind of put in there. You see her kind of
do everything backwards. She puts it back into her eye socket, so forth
and so on, and she strops you in and she begins a rather long
medical procedure, and she removes removes the piece from behind her ear, and
we see her implanted into ta mirror. And it takes many likes it many
hours, and you probably sleep for about two of them under anastasia before you
wake up. Eventually you do, and Tupid is still there to greet you.
How do you feel? How does he feel? I mean, you
got kind of a splitting headache. You just put some technology into your brain.
It's a pretty high end technology into your brain. And she says,
I was thinking, while I had your skull open, you asked what you
could do for me. There is a special minimal that I have been without
for far too long. It helps sustain my body. In truth, I
do not want to die, but I would like to live in peace.
You said you have a captain, the best one I can tell. I
need more of this material, this mineral. It exists in the asteroid belt
between here and Zine deep at the core of the asteroids. I do not
require much. You can sell the extra make money, but I would like
to find a little peace for a few more decades. I became a portal
master so that I could go far, far away from here to find peace.
Have you found it? I believe that peace is not something we find.
I agree it's something that we create. I would never have found it
far away from here. But if I can provide you with this metal and
share this burden, and you may live out the rest of your days in
peace, at least finding your own peace, I will do this. There
are many things that I would like to do. Maybe now I can more
than just running. That is I owe you a great debt to me.
The information now in your head is it's now your burden to beat it with
care. I will keep it safe. I must rest now. The implant
has a map, my math to and from this place. I understand you
are welcome anytime there are quite a few things that I must do, but
I promise I will come visit. I will be here, and I will
pray for your brother. Thank you. I think, perhaps for the first
time, I sincerely believe that your prayers may have impact. That's just so.
It is the first step in achieving peace. We so live. I
hope you find a little faith in yourself in me so ninety two. He
kind of crawls into the hammock, kind of lays down and begins staring up
at the ceiling and her eyes kind of slowly you hear, I'm like,
oh, closed, And you stand for as long as you'd like in the
place. You have quite a lot of technology now attached your heads than you
did before. And thanks to three more bars of corruption that I have to
use. I'm sorry, four more bars of corruption that I have to use.
I'm gonna give you a few things. First things First, maybe you
go to leave, maybe you don't, but you hear a voice. Do
you know voice? Yeah? Small, I don't know you. Who are
you? Where's two bits? H two bit? Disresting you? Maybe even
turn to look at two bit and you see a little girl. He's quaint
and rather understated. She wears kind of like a jumpsuit, like a standard
issue jumpsuit. She stands by two bits hammock looking at her, and then
she glitches and then comes back to hould is this I don't understand? Why
can't she hear me? I think Tamir is going to kind of approach as
if he would a normal, real child, and as people had approached him
when he was young and lost his parents, And he will get down to
her level and as warmly as his kind of hulking demeanor can can offer.
Because my name is Tamir Alasad, and I believe I will be taking care
of you. Now, what is your name? Thank god? You remember?
Her name is Aurora? Hello, Eliyah. I hope that's a secret.
She goes a lot. I'm a liah, I hope too, bit
with all the things in her head. She don't want me anymore. No,
no, you must have been very precious to her. But she is
very tired and girls weak. She has been through much. Aurora. Okay,
yeah, it's right there, and you are all right. I think
you're right the first time. Lust your guts. Yeah, thanks right?
But what now? Well, I'm not too sure, but She's not gonna
die, is she? No, not yet, but eventually, yes,
it is inevitable. We all will die. But I believe for now she
wants to make sure that you are protected, so I know things. You
must be very special. I guess that's what Tubid always told me. H,
she is very wise. It's only because I told her to be well.
I am not very wise. I make any foolish decisions. Well,
now you've got me. I do aora. I look forward to learning from
you and if there's anything I may do for you. Oh, this are
we're gonna leave Coriolis. It's been exactly twenty five point sixty six seven years.
My goodness, that does a much longer time than I've been a life
for. But I promise you I'm not older than you. You are,
but that's how long it has been. Yes, you are very much older
than me. But what if I were to tell you that I know the
best damn pilot in I love the horizon. She'll take you anywhere. It's
a lady. It's a lady. Yes. Will I get to meet her?
Yes? You will? Here said oh two bits said that I couldn't
always meet people two big didn't they have. It is dangerous, but two
Bit didn't have the family that I have. Is it big? It's big
enough. They will help keep you safe. That's good. Yes, I
want to see the stars again. Oh, I can promise you we will
see so much more than just stars. And i'd imagine you're kind of like
exiting. Oh no, make a left, tears faster, Oh thank you.
You want to make a left. And she kind of gets you out
and you come out kind of an offside area of the stacks, and you
begin to make your way that towards the vessel. You are in the cellar,
of course, and I do have three more corruption bars. I swear
if you shake you me that I will stab you this time. Well,
I can't promise that. Okay, so I can't promise that. I can't
promise that. She's walking and she's taking all this and she knows this area
pretty well. This is two Bit with her map or with her face shield
on. Did come out occasionally. But as you're walking through people, are
you know or noticing there's a reason why she kept her big piece that he
did right? And she goes, oh, what so those three guards right
there, they just pulled your your name up on their computer plate, like
the one that's like in front of their eyes, you know. Oh,
you're wanted for what flipping now, yeah, it says that you're a terrorist.
No, yeah, well I'm going to suggest that you start running now
because they're pulling weapons. Okay, that's a great thing. Let's go collected,
you know, shed like and you start running and the moment you run,
they run and we in. Well, we're gonna have a little bit
of a chase sequence. How is Tamir going to get out of this one?
Where are you going? Tamir is going to use what he knows.
He spent a lot of time fixing pretty deep areas vital areas in the seller
for the people there. So he's gonna go where it is a very crowded
okay, be somewhere where he can duck in between the mechanical panels. I
would assume he would know like which areas to avoid that. Maybe we're like
sealed off promptly enough, so like it's too close to like touching space like
you know, but he he kind of knows some sum of the areas that
he'd have to weave in and out of in order to haveving done. The
repairs without being detected or that makes sense. Yeah, you help people down
here. So okay, here's what i'd like then, since you're not trying
to really hide, you're just trying to use the natural world around you.
This is a wits roll, right, that's right. The war is there
to help me. Oh so you're gonna plus one, thinks Aurora. Yeah
oo, let's push that. Let's take it, take it, take it
another one. Yeah ooof okay, well, well it's meant to be.
You begin like dodging and weaving and dodging and weaving, and you're you're you're
like trying to push through these people and you can hear them like hecky.
And security has really amped up since all of this stuff has gone down,
and even since all of you reported that the emissary was lost and what was
going down on quit, it doesn't necessarily stopped the interernal this taste or mystics
and the mysticides, and especially now that they think and have heard thanks to
all of you, that security has been compromised. There's a lot more of
it. Okay, and all right, these three guys start are like Bry're
like, yeah, I stop him stop pit is there? Yeah, I
almost feel like this is almost kind of like a flashback to Escaping Consortium back
in all Goal. Yeah, I want to make another WITS role. Yeah.
I wonder if he can kind of use the environment in some sort of
way to take some of them out or cause a bigger distraction that would need
imminent Yeah, that's exactly what he's gonna do. He knows how to destroy
things. Yeah, let me let me roll that WITS still with Aurora or
just a straight red Wits. If you're we'll tell me what you're doing.
Okay. Uh. If if there is some sort of like steam pipe,
like a pressure pipe that he can just like, you know, he's got
his multi tool on and he could just open that up, safe tool,
the sacrifice of your multi tool. You could just like rip it open.
But it's gonna get stuck. He can get a new one he has.
They are trailing you so hard these three minutes, and people are beginning to
part way for them, and they're gonna catch up to you. And we
see you pop on a box, pop on a second box and just drag
your knife through and it catches at the end, but it stays and you
can't get it out, but you'll send in time for the steam to like
people kind of begin screaming. Maybe even you tip over a box to add
like a little extra, and you begin running. Those men again are like
shot spare them, and you're running kind of. The cellar is massive,
it's huge. It's at the base of coriol Is for pizza. You drop
down this shaft and then you like run down this flight of stairs and as
you're running our fourth corruption bar here at the end of the night, a
hand reaches out of the shadows, grabs you by the scruff and RiPPs you
in and kind of puts you against the wall. A beautiful woman stares at
you, one that you know. Her name is a Mira. Let me
and she says that she put the finger just like right on your lips.
You're very close like between these this like little tiny alleyway, and she says
she and the three guards go running back to where'd you call? I don't
know, we haven't got feel the way to go, and so they run
off in another direction, and she releases her hand from your lips and she
says, I thank you is always welcome. I owe you in the thanks
you were almost caught by three guards. I would have gotten the way.
There's more pipes. I saw you jump on that box and pipes don't stop.
Guns. Don't be so sassy. I saw you into the stacks.
What are you doing there to me? Or she's gonna roll. Yeah,
he's so big, it's that good. She's gonna roll. What is her?
Oh man? She looks you kind of right in the eyes. Yea,
and she says, you know what kind of business I do? She'd
rather seductive while she's at it. So I'll get a plus two to this
role. And this is bad she was so just tell me to me,
what brought you to my neck of the woods, especially without your what this
is? When Aris heals me, I didn't. This is what it's like.
That's what's not Yea, Oh it did roll it? Oh it did
it did? Okay, you gotta be like soft, Yeah, just keep
rolling. She doesn't get a plus two, so let me just roll two
additional ones for that first role. Okay, she got a single success.
That was a lot of guy for her to fail, A lot of dying.
Holy no, she doesn't mudge. Okay, well she doesn't. I
was about to say, yeah, exactly the average man, straight man,
maybe even straight woman would not be able to turn her down. But you
do. You're not faithed by her any of this. Yeah, that is
faith. I love it. It's so perfect. And of course when she
says you're captain tells the only thing that passes through the earth, and she
says, we could these friends from here really had anything against her crew.
You had everything against my friend who wo No, that was a daddy theorist
problem, and you are his stem. I don't really understand you are in
literally in bed with well not anymore. I got it. Looks at you.
He seems to be all out of sorts since he adopted that new kid.
Has no interest in me. So I found my own ways. Look,
I didn't know about al Khan's plan, Okay, I didn't know he
was going to frame his own son, and honestly, with him away,
I can easily step into his shoes. But you did know about all the
mystics that you helped smuggle to their death as they withered and were tortured and
experimented on. And I think this is the first time, Well it's not
the first time. Well, yes, it is the first time, because
when Tamir was willing to kill before it was out of protection. Yep,
he is very angry and very hurt, and maybe even postures. She says,
I don't deal in people. Weapons and drugs are more my speed.
Did should ask your brother? He was there during my last trade? Really
fucked it up for me. I know what my brother does. Oh.
I'm saying is that we're not that different, You and I and your little
crew. We're all just trying to survive. No very different. You are
trying to survive, protecting yourself, caring only for yourself. Everything you do
manipulation because I don't have a captain to me, or brother or any of
the things that you have. Congratulations your love, But the only person looking
out for me is me, and you's been that way for a long time.
And if it means I have to shag the head but the syndicate by
at least as high up as I could get, then it's worth it.
It's a funny thing anomalies. They are unpredictable and unexpected. That's per definition.
Something that is unpredictable and unexpected doesn't belong, It doesn't fit. What
are you saying that you don't fit in here to me or we already knew
that m I fit in just fine here core OLiS has been my home for
several years. But you always on the run, always have to watch your
back, wondering who is going to betray you next. It's a good thing.
I have a third eye, so do I, and I can see
very clearly through it. Now. Well, if you was done, I
guess I'll move on the next time you're being hunted by coriolistcards, stay out
of my territory. I'll do my best, but cannot keep that promise,
so I will not make it. She boops you on the nose, and
she she like slides out, like rushing herself across you as she does bye
to me, goodbye Mia. I would stabbed you. I'm gonna be honest.
I really almost had her attack you, but I decided not to.
I was going. I was also going to attack her. She see,
he doesn't have anything on him. His multi tool is gone, he has
nothing, couldn't couldn't do it. I literally went through my inventory. It's
like, what does he carry on him? Not? Not anything? When
he runs out the door. I mean, it is a corruption bar How
many more corruption bar us do we have I had. That was the last
one. Her appearance is like the last, the last corruption bar. My
plan was to have her, you know, not be quite as cordial.
And you know what, as she slips past you, two things happen.
I dug this. I dug this one myself. That was footmoll you she
notices because imagine she leans in before she goes and whispers in your ear,
and she notices the fresh tech behind your ear, and oh, six bars.
Even better, I'll use the last corruption bar to do what I planned
on doing. On her way out, As she goes to slide past,
you feel her body, her upper body kind of brush against yours, and
then a sharp pain in your side as she attempts to make a melee combat
attack against you, rolling like shit? All right, fun, no darkness
points that you give me. I'm gonna reroll. Yeah boom, that's what
I need. How much you're not wearing any armor? Are you? Oh?
Hell no? X Michelle Great, I'm gonna say she does it.
She doesn't actually has an act. She has a cricket and she pulls it.
You feel steel against your belly button and she fires right into your gut.
You got a slide to the wall and you hear a small voice inside
your head. Go to mirror, to me, are you okay to me?
Or you you're bleeding if you your vitals are showing that that you're bleeding
out, Tamir Amir And she walks off and in the silhouette of like the
tiny alleyway, she like blows off her gun and she says by to mirror,
I really wish we could have been friends, and she turns and walks
away. Samir, you will take I believe the thermal cricket does two points
a damage and you're not wearing any armor. She said, there's nothing,
so take two points. She just feed you in the guts and you are
bleeding out, but it's just a gut wound. So you're you're able to
maybe get where you're going. Do you go back to you're trying to get
go back to the ship. Yeah, but definitely not before he sends a
message out okay, okay, Oh can he reach out to tal Last time
I checked, you and Teal had a very special way of doing that.
Yes, yes, they didn't really works unfortunately during towels one shot, but
maybe nurse it's an new learned ability something that you have been practicing. But
there is, at least so you've been told by your teacher. Something very
unique about the two of you are shared ability. They only touch butts in
the dark. It's not their mystic of pallor. Yes, he would like
to contact her. He's like, I imagine you like hold hold your chest
and you pull out a space note, a spacing note that now has a
giant hole through it because you tucked it in your schumak. Yeah, it's
can you have that moment? Way I should call to now as you're like
bleeding out and you're holding her note she left you still maybe like a little
little her little signature is all that you can see from the burn hole through
it. We should get someone draw that. I'm just gonna open up a
document and make it black out to me or touched butts in the dark.
I'm gonna roll out and call my captain cash. I'm sorry, sorry,
I got a side track. Yeah, two, it works. You imagine
you actually probably take a seat in the kind of security of this alleyway,
like where you're you're holding your gut. I mean you've been shot and you
can hear the little voice here and goes slow and steady breaths to me,
or would you like me to call a many? No, no, no,
it'll be okay. I am calling my captain. Just hang on,
okay, And she again disappears. You don't this time, you don't see
her. You only hear her. It seems that she can make herself visible
to you when she wants to, and when she does it like in your
mind's eye again and you try this time. It's very different ability one that
you've been trying to hold in on that's been a lot trickier than maybe say
the artifice or abilities that you hold. But you do connect with Wow.
You have been working to reverse alter what the stone did for showly to do
between the two of you so that you can see and speak to one another
without having to be anywhere near one another. A shared brain wave, I
guess, I guess you could say you know, the connections open, or
you can feel tw She is having a good time, maybe with her sister,
maybe even a family dinner or something. They're like having family dinner.
She's on coriolist for a little extra time. She seems very calm. You
can hear her heartbeat in your ears. It's normal and relaxed. You hear
her laugh, Tell it needs her help. I'm inserable in the cellar,
be careful, and you send a message to her basically, whoever tal is.
I do imagine they're at some family dinner. We see Taels stop and
hear you, and then her eyes almost glaze over as she sees through yours.
She sees through yours, I can see where you are, and I
imagine she responds very quickly, I'm coming, I'm coming, and the camera
pans out as we close out tonight's episode. A few days pass, the
flesh around your new augmented peace begins to heal. You find out that Aurora
talks a lot, and Aurora helps you do something. Find some information about
Shin and a loss priest and the book. You still haven't heard from your
brother. He's still ignoring your emails. You think he's eating the food because
the trash piles up outside to be picked up, and the mail is never
opened. But I imagine you would want to give this information to your brother.
Yes, Can you put it on a thumb drive and do the only
thing you know you can? You put it in his mailbox with the rest
of the mail. Maybe when he checks it three months from now, the
wool and those fresh medical supplies get used put to good use. It's too
bad you don't have a proper medic on board. But you have a new
mission to head out the asteroid belt between Couriol that's I mean, sorry,
between Hua and zine H and do you and Tell began plotting your very first
mining expedition together out to the outer rim Demere. You have gained a few
things for this game. You are being given a talent call third eye.
This is because of Aurora, who can process things differently than you can.
Basically, they look into the talent third eye. You don't actually get a
third eye, it's just an ability. Well, you get a new scar.
Sorry friend, what's new? You gain the ability to now have two
bit install your augmentations, which means they cost less and they're not as regulated,
which means they can be a little bit more customized or like I need
a thing here, I need a thing there. And more importantly, you
you have a you have a place two bits place at least access to it,
which is well hidden and very very secure. I imagine you're going to
want to keep that kind of on the d L, but what you've got.
More importantly, you and Aurora spend months months sorting through all kinds of
information, but most importantly reading binary code on the only archives of archives left
on the portals, how to build them, what kind of materials are made,
the original algorithmic data that made the controlling of what is basically black holes
possible. Where you currently hold information that nobody else in the third or first
horizon have ancient information, and it is yours to protect. Who knows,
maybe it will benefit you one day if a portal's not working, at least
you no know how to fix it, and some years one shot will come
to a close. He has new tech, his new friend. Do your
friends, if you count give it you cant a bit and and helping hand
for your brother. Maybe at least it helps with a little bit of the
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